The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, has lamented the difficult experience of travelling across the South-East region of Nigeria as a result of presence of several security checkpoints. Recounting his experience, Moghalu said that he decided to travel from Enugu, the Enugu State capital to a neigbhouring town of Nnewi in Anambra State in a rented “tokunbo” car and its driver, noting that he was stopped at about 20 different security checkpoints.
An estimated N2.8trillion was extorted at gunpoint from residents of South-Eastern Nigeria by various security agencies in three years between July 2020 and July 2023, according to a report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety).